Giant improper english word emerges from the woodwork

June 30, 2006

a regional expression or figure of speech that is not "accepted" in proper grammars in usage and the like

sorta like slang....

cortney aldrich Jun 30, 2006 3:21 PM Re: Re: Giant beetle emerges from the woodwork Ok word smith...what does "colloquilism" mean then.fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote:

no...gobsmacked is a very English colloquilism....

the only people that i've ever known to use gob in any way shape er form over here were folks talking about "gobbing", spitting, on folks, and this was...bloody hell...umm...over 25 years ago....

and this was very much an english import

tally ho!

Peter Kebbell Jun 29, 2006 6:29 AM Re: Re: Giant beetle emerges from the woodwork

Hi Nikki

>Not taking away from the great discovery, but what the heck

>does "gobsmacked" mean?

You mean that there's a horrible abuse of the English language that you *don't* have in the US??? Maybe there's hope for you yet ;-)

It means shocked, but it's really a rather tasteless word IMHO :-)

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